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Chess may be played on the Roman Wall side of The Mercury Theatre where some benches are equipped with chess boards and you are able to borrow chess pieces from the café bar during their opening times.

The chess park is named after Colchester-born Dr Jonathan Penrose OBE (1933 – 2021) who dominated British chess, winning 10 championships between 1958 and 1969, before going on to become the world’s leading International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster.